Welcome to a blog dedicated to helping us connect to kids, and to all learners.

We all want kids to learn and to feel inspired. Ask them and they'll tell you: the surefire way to make elevated learning happen is to forge a meaningful human connection with them. Before we can address concepts such as math anxiety or other behavioral/learning/technological challenges we face, our foremost job is to connect to students as people. Then we all flourish.

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Podcast interview: Parenting Then and Now

Robert Ahdoot

Mar 20, 2019
1 min

Podcast interview: Parenting Then and Now

Want a good conversation starter for fellow teachers and parents? It’s easy and fun, and you probably do it all the time already. Simply compare what being a kid was like “back in the day” to how it is now, and you’ll set the room alight. Same with pitting parenting styles today vs. then, or what it was like as a student now vs. then. Certain parenting acts, for example, could be construed either as “motivation” or as “child abuse”, depending on the culture or decade. And as

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What goes through my mind while fire threatens to burn down my home

Robert Ahdoot

Nov 27, 2018
3 min

What goes through my mind while fire threatens to burn down my home

This was the view from behind a friend's house nearby. The fireman is keeping an eye on the fire's potential approach. Nothing squashes the anxiety attached to the rigmarole of daily life quite like the prospect of your home going up in flames. I didn’t particularly like the vehicle of such a lesson, but now with our home intact, I’ll accept the important reminder of how to emotionally prioritize. The recent Woolsey fire forced thousands of residents from their homes, inclu

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